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Yep. The hard, if not kear impossible part will be just resetting the one part of the immune system attacking the islets without turning off or resetting the im
by pixl97 2y ago
Yep. The hard, if not kear impossible part will be just resetting the one part of the immune system attacking the islets without turning off or resetting the immune system.
- mlhpdx 2y agoThe promising part here is that someday it will be possible to take stem cells from a patient and specialize them to islet cells. Similar to what they’re doing here with vascular cells. It’s far too expensive at the moment, but ultimately the process will be improved and refined, and the costs will come down. At least that’s my hope for a cure.
- im3w1l 2y agoEasiest method may be to nuke the immune system and put a new one in place. As the immune system consists of several parts it may be sufficient to just replace one of them.
- jajko 2y agoSounds like 22nd century tech at least. Good to dream of, not practical even for very young here to think it would help them
- throwawaymaths 2y agonot really? this is basically already deployed as a cure for AIDS (with an N in the single digits iirc). the issue is not technical, it's that it's such an extreme solution that without more safety data it's ethically a hard sell for a condition like diabetes.